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“The most profound
technologies are those that
disappear.
They weave themselves into the
fabric of everyday life until they
are indistinguishable from it “
The Computer for the 21st Century
"The Computer for the 21st Century", Scientific American,
Vol. 265 No.9, pp. 66-75, 1991
Mark Weiser

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The Essence of Eurotech's strategy
Finding the right PLATFORM that reduce Customer’s TCO and TTM
It's a matter of SW vs. HW
Cost
Time
HW COST
SW COST
-
$
6
For Embedded
the PC
is the platform
choosen by
Eurotech

10.
Malthus was wrong. He forgot a factor:
our continual ability to do more and more with less and less because of
Technological Innovation
R. Buckminster Fuller
1895 - 1983
“The principle of doing ever more
with ever less
Space, Time, Matter
and Energy
per each given level of functional
performance”
Innovation moves from material to abstract

18.
SISSA
MCA 2013
GPUs vs CPUs
comparing GPUs with
CPUs over the last
decade in terms
FLOPs, we see that
GPUs appear to be far
ahead of the CPUs
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Aurora Tigon: 140 TeraFlops per Rack
CPUs and GPUs power Aurora Tigon HPC cluster
to 3.2 GFLOPS/W
Sets World Record for Energy Efficiency
At the Top of the GREEN500
11000 CO2 tons saved
1500 cars that do not circulate for 1 year
11500 saved trees
15 Km2 of rain forest left untouched

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SISSA
MCA 2013 20
Meta-Trends in Technological Acceleration
IDEAS are the new “ultimate” raw material
 Moore's Law Miniaturization ‘65
 Transistors increase 2 times over 18 months
 Metcalfe's Law Interconnection ‘93
 Value of a network increases with the square of the
number of connections
 Gilder's Law Quantization ’00
 Bandwidth increases 1,5 times over 12 months

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• Ubiquitous high bandwidth connection to the Internet at all times
• Massive computation available on demand through the CLOUD
• Tiny Computers embedded in
– the environment,
– our clothing,
– our body
Augmented real reality
Computers are becoming pervasive and ubiquitous
THE PLANETARY COMPUTATIONAL EXOSKELETON

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What IoT needs
An universal infrastructure where data can exist
anywhere and be available to any device with
some form of consistency guarantee
Wearable
Notebook
Appliance
Sensor
Sensor
Server
Cluster
Network
Camera

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“A Period of Combinatorial Innovation”
In the 1800s, it was interchangeable parts.
In the 1920s, it was electronics.
In the 1970s, it was integrated circuits.
In the 1990s, it was the VLSI functions.
In the 2010s, it was the SW Components.
Hal Varian
Google Chief Economist

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Calm Technology
Mark Weiser
Ubiquitous computing just might
help to free our minds from
unnecessary work, and..
.. Connect us to the
fundamental challenge that
humans have always had:
to understand the patterns
in the universe
and
ourselves within them.

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Growth
Time
today today + 3 years
One order of magnitude
change
“.. is really about human activity, it’s about vision, it’s about what you’re allowed
to believe… People are limited by their beliefs, they limit themselves by what
they allow themselves to believe is possible."
Carver Mead
EXPONENTIAL GROWTH

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1949: …a panel of expert
…. predicted that some day,
a computer as powerful as ENIAC would contain:
only 1,500 vacuum tubes; weigh 3,000 pounds;
and require 10 kilowatts of power to operate.
Such a machine would be about the size and
weight of an automobile with power consumption
to match.
Popular Mechanics
March 1949

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…we won't experience 100 years
of progress in the 21st century,
it will be more like
20,000 years of progress
(at today's rate)
Law of accelerating returns
Ray Kurzweil
The singularity is near

46.
Annual meeting American Physical Society 1959
Still … Plenty of Room at the Bottom
… But there is plenty of room to
make them [computers]
smaller.
There is nothing that I can see
in the physical law that says
the computer elements cannot
be made enormously smaller
than they are now.….
R. FEYNMAN
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The only stable
component in nature
is the change!
The tentative fourth law of thermodynamics.
S.E. Joergensen
Thank you for your attention